PATERSON: Well it's very hard for a lot of our legislative leaders, and also our advocates, our unions, people in the fields that are going to have their growth reduced, to accept it. It's very hard. I don't think they fully appreciate the seriousness of our budget deficit. Our national deficit is a trillion dollars, and what we've got to recognize is this is the worst downturn in our economy since the Great Depression, and if we want to avoid going through what California went through, we've got to get back to Albany and get to work.